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BMI-Decree-Review@Usdoj.Gov Christian L. Castle [email protected] Admitted in California and Texas November 20, 2015 By email [email protected] David C. Kully Chief, Litigation III Section Antitrust Division U.S. Department of Justice 450 5th Street NW, Suite 4000 Washington, DC 20001 Re: PRO Licensing of Jointly Owned Works Dear Mr. Kully: I appreciate this opportunity to participate in your review of the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees and commend you for undertaking your review. By way of background, I am an attorney in private practice in Austin, Texas. I have represented clients in the music and “music tech” areas for over 25 years in Austin, Los Angeles, New York and Palo Alto. In addition to traditional music clients, I also have represented music users and struggled along with everyone else during the digital transition that is still ongoing. I worked on early licensing breakthroughs in videogames and CD Plus titles 1994 and some of the first digital music entrants starting in 1997. This comment is written from my own perspective as an observer of the songwriter market the government regulates and not on behalf of any client. I am concerned about the questions presented by the Department of Justice regarding PROs licensing more than the contributory share of compositions written by their affiliates. I find the DOJ’s premise is so far removed from any rate court decision, industry practice or general sense of the rights of songwriters that I fear the U.S. government is about to lose the respect of many if not most songwriters, not just in the U.S. but around the world. Christian L. Castle, Attorneys 9600 Great Hills Trail, Suite 150 West | Austin, Texas | 78759 Phone (512) 420-2200 | Fax (512) 519-2529 www.christiancastle.com David C. Kully, Esq. November 20, 2015 Page 2 The 100% licensing issue reminds me of reactions to the Fairness in Music Licensing Act in 1998. That wrong turn resulted in a WTO arbitration that the U.S. lost—with U.S. taxpayers subsidizing royalty payments to foreign writers. Songwriters have traditionally been free to associate with co-writers without regard to PRO affiliation. 100% licensing would necessarily limit co-writing partners out of concern that any revenue earned by the co-write could be lost in what will almost surely be a licensing and collection morass. It is out of step with the long-standing practices in the music industry. A recent post on a popular artist rights blog sums it up1: The Department of Justice is attempting to change the rules of the road to something manufactured out of thin air and then pretending those new rules were there all along. Songwriters must ask why? I respectfully suggest that it is a point of view that the Department should take into account. 1. The Default Position The reason the questions presented by the Department of Justice for public comment are concerning to so many songwriters is better understood in the context of the what I call the “default position” for co-writers: (1) Absent an agreement to the contrary, (2) each co-writer (3) administers their contributory share of copyright in a song (4) including the right to have their respective share administered by their PRO to the extent of that share. For more sophisticated songwriters, I would add (5) no co-writer can bind them to license terms the writer does not accept. This “default position” is the deal songwriters assume will be in place unless they agree otherwise.2 The Department’s position is controversial—so controversial, in fact that a recent proposed resolution supporting 100% licensing in a bar association intellectual property group failed to pass and was withdrawn. While the rates for particular revenue streams may be affected by promises that an artist co-writer made to their record company, the collection and payment of those revenue streams is nevertheless determined by fractional ownership. 1 The Trichordist, “Call to Action: The Department of Justice is Assaulting Songwriters Yet Again”, available at http://thetrichordist.com/2015/11/18/call-to-action-the-department-of-justice-is- assaulting-songwriters-yet-again/ 2 See paragraph 4 below for discussion of common songwriter agreements. Christian L. Castle Attorneys www.christiancastle.com David C. Kully, Esq. November 20, 2015 Page 3 Having said that, as a matter of business practice performance royalties and collection rights are never subject to such third party agreements. Performance royalties are uniquely protected from reductions or redirection in the music industry. This includes both the writer’s share of performance royalties (paid through to the songwriters directly) and the publisher’s share of performance royalties (paid to a writer’s “music publishing designee,” often a publisher and often subject to recoupment of a pre-payment of royalties (i.e., “advances”) paid to the songwriter by the publisher). Even when a composer is hired to compose a score and gives up copyright ownership to the commissioning film studio, the writer’s share of performance royalties is still paid through to the composer directly by the composer’s PRO. The composer may retain the publisher’s share on songs derived from the score (e.g., the Bryan Adams hit “Everything I Do, I Do It For You” was from a melody in the score of Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves). Depending on negotiations, the composer could expect that she would be paid the publisher’s share as well as her writer’s share for performances of that song to the extent of her contributory share. In any event, the composer would be paid performance income by her PRO. 2. 100% Accounting for Independent Songwriters We have many independent songwriters in Austin.3 Independent songwriters, i.e., songwriters not signed to a music publisher or administrator, lack the infrastructure to bear the newly created burdens that would be placed on them in a 100% licensing environment. The Department of Justice would do well not to fall into the common perception of the “Big Tech” companies who seem to think that every songwriter is signed to a publisher if not a major publisher. If the Consent Decrees suddenly imposed a 100% licensing burden on ASCAP and BMI songwriters, independent songwriters (a sizeable number of the voting members of each government-regulated PRO) could suddenly bear the accounting obligation. As I understand it, the entire 100% licensing theory is based on the government being able to create a new burden on co-owners of copyright, not on the PROs themselves that own nothing. This burden will include tax reporting, payments and accountings for unrelated third parties. But first it will require educating the independent songwriters of the contours of this new burden. It is highly unlikely that songwriters would have a reason to 3 See City of Austin, Austin Music Census and Needs Assessment Survey, available at http://www.austintexas.gov/department/atxmusic-census-and-needs-assessment-survey Christian L. Castle Attorneys www.christiancastle.com David C. Kully, Esq. November 20, 2015 Page 4 know of tenants in common doctrines, much less that these doctrines apply to songwriters or to copyright. As someone who talks to independent songwriters and their managers frequently, I assign a 95% probability that no one will have any idea what they are supposed to do, or will even notice that it happened unless their income drops even further than it already has. The regulated PROs could no doubt offer handling this newly created administrative burden, but will do so for a fee. I would assume that fee will be paid on a cash and carry basis and not on an administrative fee structure—that is, songwriters will have to come out of pocket to pay for services either by their PRO, accountant or lawyer, and perhaps all three. Of course, this all assumes that the songwriter has not signed a song split agreement (discussed further below) of one type or another that would actually prohibit them from licensing 100% of performance income and collecting all the money for the song themselves. Of course, the government could decide to treat major publishers differently than independent songwriters to avoid the grassroots political backlash, but such an action could likely be challenged as violating equal protection of the law. So equal protection could be then added to the litany of potential Constitutional violations that government mandated 100% licensing would fall afoul of. 3. Questions for Comment (a) Have the licenses ASCAP and BMI historically sold to users provided the right to play all the works in each organization’s respective repertory (whether wholly or partially owned)? Music users I am aware of understand that they need to obtain PRO licenses from ASCAP, BMI and SESAC because of fractional ownership and affiliation of songwriters individually and as co-writers. The licenses issued by all the PROs are limited to the rights controlled by the applicable PRO. (b) If the blanket licenses have not provided users the right to play the works in the repertories, what have the licenses provided? Respectfully, the question is ambiguous and a complex question. As noted above, the blanket licenses provide users the right to play the works in the respective ASCAP or BMI repertories to the extent of the contributory share of an Christian L. Castle Attorneys www.christiancastle.com David C. Kully, Esq. November 20, 2015 Page 5 affiliated co-writer or in its entirety if the work is 100% written by an affiliated songwriter. As is quite well known in the relevant market, blanket licenses provide users the right to publicly perform the subject works as a necessary but not always sufficient condition as other PRO licenses may be required.
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